Danielle Keiko Eyer

American Saint follows Andy Sanders, a 24-year-old genderqueer person who cut ties with their family, leaving their small town of Colby, Ohio for Chicago, after their beloved grandmother Ruth passed away.

Five years later, as Andy worries that Grandma Ruth’s memory is beginning to fade, Andy leaves Chicago, including their partner, to return to Colby with an extraordinary mission in mind: to canonize their beloved grandmother as a Catholic Saint. To do this, they must approach their parents, their brother, and other members of the community to participate in interviews led by the young, hip, tech-savvy bishop, who is vying for online virality by posting about the process on TikTok. When the family finds out about Andy’s return, when Andy’s partner shows up unannounced, and as the canonization proceedings hit roadblocks, old secrets are revealed and old wounds are reopened as the past comes rushing back.

American Saint is a family comedy/drama with a contemporary, pop/rock score about queerness, forgiveness, and a group of ordinary characters trying to achieve something extraordinary.

Fractured is the story of two young people: Nadia, who has been severely depressed from a young age, and Aidan, their best friend who prides herself in her ability to take care of them. The show begins with Nadia dying by suicide while Aidan is away at school and deals with the aftermath of Nadia’s death. Nadia is present on stage, existing in a dark reflection of the living world (much like the mirror world in her favourite book, Alice Through the Looking Glass), as she desperately tries to lead Aidan to the suicide note she addressed to her but that was found by Alison, Nadia’s mother, first. Despite her child’s death, Alison is frantically trying to keep up the outward image of a perfect family—an image that certainly does not include a suicide note with no mention of herself—and decides to keep the note from Aidan. Meanwhile, Aidan is equally desperate to discover why Nadia decided to end her life, convinced that there must be a reason she can pinpoint or a person she can blame.

Cassie and Finn are just meant to be! Cassie has known this for the past four years, ever since that fateful day when Finn saved her life and left her forever changed. When Cassie impulsively switches into drama class to follow Finn and his long-time girlfriend, Rora, she is thrust onto a stage she never wanted to be on but begins to discover how her innate talents might translate to stage management and lighting design. In the meantime, she can work on her great equation: the one that will tell her how to break up Finn and Rora for good so she can finally be with her true soulmate.

Cassie Silver’s New Entropic Equation! is meant to be performed for audiences ages 10-15 and performed by middle school students ages 11-14.